Going beyond the headlines |
Whether you’ve ever been drawn in by the headlines, lost yourself in a scroll, or found your 15 minutes of fame, we’ve all seen how the news shapes the world around us. We're exploring this and more in a series of events to accompany our Breaking the News exhibition this month. Plus we’ve added more events to our Food Season line-up and have the return of our Vital Discussions, in partnership with Royal Society of Literature. Join us wherever suits you; online, or at the Library. |
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Beautiful News / Visualising Victorian News |
Tuesday 26 April, 19.15 At the Library
As part of our Breaking the News events series David McCandless, the king of infographics, joins the leading information designers behind Visualising Victorian News to discuss how spectacular visuals can help to make sense of the complex information and data.
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The Hoax: The 18th-century’s Most Intriguing Deceptions |
Monday 23 May, 19.00 At the Library
Get ready for some mind-bending magic and deceptions as magician and historian Ian Keable details some of the biggest hoaxes of the 18th century – a woman who birthed rabbits, a new Shakespearean play, rapping ghosts and more hoaxes of intrigue.
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Friday 22 April 2022, 19.00 At the Library
We are proud to be hosting this special concert from The Academy of St Martin in the Fields as a finale to our ★★★★ Beethoven exhibition. Enjoy two of Beethoven’s most admired orchestral works as our Entrance Hall is filled with the sound of a 50-piece orchestra and the rich voices of the Bach Choir.
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Saturday 23 April, 18.00 At the Library and online
Celebrate World Book Night with us and a host of leading writers on this year's UNESCO International Day of the Book. Speakers include Lemm Sissay, Dreda Say Mitchell, Ayisha Malik and Dr Alex George who will all be sharing their love of reading
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China Miéville on the Communist Manifesto |
Wednesday 11 May, 19.30 Online
China Miéville talks to professor of political theory and writer Lea Ypi about his new book A Spectre, Haunting, a reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: the Communist Manifesto.
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Tales of the Emirates: People, Poetry and Fantasy |
Tuesday 5 April, 19.00 At the Library
Dr Abdulaziz Al’Musallam, Mohammad Al-Murr and Dubai Abulhoul introduce some of the written and spoken traditions of their region and how they are inspiring today’s writing, from vernacular Nabati poetry and folk tales to contemporary fantasy literature.
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